Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 33

• What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

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  Christian, Soul, God Love

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• Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

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  Tree, World, Shrubs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.89

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• It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

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  Iron, Giving, Justice

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• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

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  Honesty, Men, Down And

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• When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

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  Wall, Real, Community

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.103

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• Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

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  Home, Young, Benefactors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.215

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• The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

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  Success, Nature, Men

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• All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

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  Real, Sobriety, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.100

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• A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

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  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Arrows

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

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  Hens, Virtue, Great Men

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• Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

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  Reading, People, Mind

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• Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

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  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

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• The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

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  Records, May, Revival

  Henry Ward Beecher (1874). “Lectures on Preaching”, p.235

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

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• Never excuse yourself.

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  Ballet, Excuse

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• The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

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  Tree, Her Beauty, England

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.5

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• We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

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  Knowledge, Body, Hungry

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

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  Men, Woven, Fabric

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

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  Hard Work, Dedication, Victory

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• No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

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  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Popular Lectures on Preaching”, p.188

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• It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

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  Fashion, Believe, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.16

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• All true religion must stand on true morality.

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  Religion, Morality, True Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

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  Mean, Soul, Religion

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• Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

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  Soul, Democracy, Liberty

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.42

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